We are pleased to announce that the 13th Sensometric Meeting will feature a Data Analysis Workshop. The workshop topic is "Appropriate Methods of Imputation for Consumer Hedonic Data".

The challenge is to perform appropriate data imputation for 570 consumers, each of whom evaluates 6 brown breads in a 16-present-6 sensory-informed balanced incomplete block design. These data were analyzed and discussed by Franczak et al. (2015). For your convenience, the workshop data set is available in two locations: (i) the R package sensory (see bbread), and (ii) on the Sensometrics Data Set Repository (see Brown Bread data).

To be considered as a potential workshop presenter, please send your abstract to John Castura by May 16, 2016. The abstract (up to 250 words) should summarize your statistical methods, results, and conclusions.

Data Analysis Workshop presenters will be encouraged to prepare a manuscript for the Sensometrics 2016 special issue of Food Quality and Preference. (However you are permitted to submit your own original manuscripts to any journal of your choice.)

please note that the abstract submission deadline for this year's Sensometrics meeting in Brighton, UK, is approaching fast. Please make sure to submit your abstract by March 29 via the conference homepage.

Until April 26th (extended deadline), the Society of Sensory Professionals is accepting submissions for Oral/Poster Presentations and Technical Workshops for the 2016 meeting, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on October 26-28. Become part of our sensory program by sharing your research with your colleagues in sensory science.

Pre-conference tutorials (1/2d) to be held July 26, 2016 in Brighton, UK

Data analysis workshop: As for other meetings, we would like to hold another data analysis workshop. Please consider sending a proposals (for a workshop leader and/or for useful datasets). All suggestions welcome.

Satellite tutorials (1/2d) to be held in conjunction with the meeting (details tbd)Note: these tutorials could be identical or similar to those presented @ Sensometrics, but presenters might be asked to adopt the material as needed to meet the somewhat different audience)

Sensometrics workshop: The organizers strongly encourage proposals for a workshop on Sensometrics. No general restrictions on format, any suggestions on organizer, topics, presenters, etc. are welcome.

Please send any proposals to the chairperson; for Sensometrics, you can also send them to scientific.chair {at} this website's domain; for EuroSense, you can also send them directly as proposals to the conference chairs.

I'm pleased to announce that the Danish Technical University's Sensometrics course has seen some updates with all material (including podcasts etc.) now being made available publicly:http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/courses/02930/

So you can now complete the course on your own, if you want – enjoy!

Thanks to Per Brockhoff for these efforts and for passing the information on to us.